EP#39: Maniacal Moving

Podcast Notes

• As mentioned in last weeks episode, MacroFab is moving to a new location currently. See Figure 1.
• Parker is going to hack his Jeep's radio this weekend with a Bluetooth Audio board. Parker is using this board found on Amazon. See Figure 2.
• Parker goofed on making the podcast notes and had that NXP was buying out Qualcomm. It is actually the other way around. Set for a $39 billion buy out.
• Botnet Recall of Things. This is a continuation of the IoT DDOS attacks that have been happening this past couple weeks. Commentator "anszom" in the Hack A Day comment thread had a really good idea.
  • 1. Write a bot attacking the vulnerable devices. It doesn’t seem very difficult
    2. Our new bot either simply bricks the device or changes the default password to a random one
    3. Problem “solved’ :)
• Stephen and Parker think they need to make designers and programmers of IoT devices accountable for security. Maybe implement a CE/FCC emissions and ESD testing for hardware. Can a security test be standardized across multiple platforms?

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!